Anger brews over benefits

When Erin McFarlane looks at public workers, she sees lucrative pension benefits she doesn't ever expect to get. And it makes her mad.
"I don't think that a federal employee or government employee is worth any more than anybody else who does their job and does it well," said the Slinger, Wis., woman. She's been working ...

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Benefits are not give-aways, they are part of somebody’s income — part that was deferred.

Private employees used to have them too, but the large companies decided to use that money to overpay their CEO’s and Board members instead. So now, people who used to have pensions themselves are pissed at someone else who does still.

Meanwhile, you want to “take back” part of the income (deferred) that people have been working for. Because, why should they get what they worked for either???

And yet, the creeps who messed up our entire economic system are getting bonuses in the millions, did not lose their golden parachutes and are not going to jail for willingly selling stuff they knew was garbage.

People — you have been set up to be angry.

You have been manipulated to attack fellow members of the middle class – instead of looking at what is really going on.

In WI there was a surplus, until the governor decided to roll back taxes on the rich.

In the US there was a SURPLUS at the end of the Democratic Clinton administration and the economies of the whole world spiralling downward with massive and massively increasing deficits at the end of the Bush administration.

People take your heads out of you know where.

Meanwhile, the Dems definitely don’t have it all right, but spouting the Repub party line is just sick for middle class people. You are being used to tear up your own because they already S#$*(‘d you over.